Since users of "Canadian" ISPs are sent warning letters about their uploading behaviour citing the American DMCA already, what would be the point of having a domestic version? Just so it could be bilingual?
Thank you, Scudsucker, for justifying the reputation of the average Slashdot poster as a peurile, reactionary, naive blow-hard.
It warms the cockles (and no, I'm not homophobic either) of my heart to see life imitate lampoon so perfectly. You truly rock, as a living charicature of adolescent reasoning and broken rhetoric, and are an inspiration to us all.
How is listening to foreign lobbyists over your own people and banning something that isn't a problem a "clever move"?
It is a clever move to toss them a bone rather than having them agitate for your entire skeleton, especially when the bone you toss is meaningless and costs you nothing.
What inferno? The MPAA can't do jack against another country, and they aren't going to stop releasing movies in Canada if this doesn't pass.
Did you honestly just say "the MPAA can't do jack against another country" without giggling? Why don't you ask a Swede how they feel about the MPAA's influence in their country? You might come away better informed.
Canada's exhibitor industry exists only by the leave of the various American movie associations who sell them content. I've been e-mailing back and forth with a friend who works for one of the major studios here, and I can tell you that around their office they're damn thankful at how this turned out because the alternative meant possible industry action, which threatens their paycheques directly (she's in exhibitor relations).
In this situation, the Americans hold all the cards. They own the movies, and in most cases they own the movie theatres.
Negotiating with bullies so that they're under the impression you've conceded to their demands when in fact nothing has changed is a clever move. It's called diplomacy, and it works.
It's hilarious when the plebes get all foamy at the mouth over something they've totally missed the point of. This was a clever move, not a nefarious one.
An inconsequential smolder has been smothered rather than face an inferno from Hollywood's fattest wallets. That's a good move -- it represents a certain economy of action that's often lacking in Canadian government.
No DCMA equivalent in Canada! Vive le Canada semi-libre!
My Canadian ISP, Rogers, is not on the list but if I were to hazard a guess I'd reckon they'd sell my tracks six ways from Sunday as soon as sneeze.
These are, after all, the goons who think just about any kind of encrypted traffic coming out of your box is a terrorist threat to the movie industry -- even if it's just a VPN connection.
Does anyone know what Rogers retention policies actually are?
Right -- when you're using low impact applications like the ones you've listed the machine you use is much more forgiving. It's kind of funny the way you keep trying to disagree while agreeing with this statement.
If I was getting a multimedia machine I am getting a Mac, hands down, no debate.
Despite questionable reading comprehension, you seem to have arrived at the point eventually. Yes -- when you need a workstation to work seamlessly with all its parts in a high performance situation, putting together a Windows-based PC Frankenbox is an exercise in self-defeat.
The difference becomes glaring in the desktop sector though. Especially to us here, where we build our own machines. Everyone knows that you can get the specs for a G5, go to Tigerdirect, Newegg, wherever and price things out piece by piece and come in well under what that Mac would cost.
Yeah, indeed -- everyone knows this. That's why our handy IT department went out and custom built a new Windows workstation for our video studio: to save $600.
...Of course, that savings seems less significant now that we're sacked with a workstation plagued by maddeningly intermittant hardware conflicts and maddeningly predictable software/OS glitches.
The thing is a lemon, much like the reasonably expensive PC it was to replace.
I'm not a fanboy. I don't care what other people use. However, working in a mixed platform enviroment for the last year has shown me a few things: 1) Windows users hate their computers, and are regularly extremely frustrated; 2) A turn-key solution is worth the "premium" (I put that in quotations because I think, in the long run, the premium machine costs us less time and effort to maintain).
So, go ahead and build your own PC if you're a gamer or a developer -- but if you need a machine to perform heavy multimedia duties in a professional environment, you're just asking for a world of grief by trying to save that $500.
Send for that dog with the liquor canister on his collar -- I'm being flattened beneath the weight of a jaw-droppingly gimongous bubble of hot air and it's not rising!
Those of you who skip commercials are aware, I hope, that you're stealing television?
Being entertained is a privilege, not a right.
I mean, sure, you paid to buy the TV. And you pay your cable or satellite bill. And you bought the PVR along with the embedded fees for the various artists' unions. But, other than that, it's like you commercial skippers are trying to get something for nothing.
It's time to ask yourself what Jesus would do.
It's time to take some responsibility: if you enjoy quality programming, the onus is on you to not only watch the adverts but also to act on them. That's right: those commercials are worthless unless you exercise your obligation as a consumer to actually buy something.
So, what's our tally? Buy your TV, buy your PVR, line the pockets of the artist unions, pay for content delivery, watch the ads, act on the suggestions made in the ads -- now you're entitled to some entertainment.
1) This is good because, as many have mentioned, going out on a high note is far preferable to shrivelling into unadultered guano before calling it quits. Besides, the sooner they kill it the sooner someone else can "reimagine" it a generation later if we honestly find the concept that compelling.
2) The success of BSG has taught the Sci-Fi Channel some good lessons, and we can hope such lessons are applied as they develop new properties, thereby giving them an edge in the race to suck less.
3) I'm arranging to have my own scifi project pitched to the Sci-Fi Channel in the near future. A hole in the schedule means a potential opportunity!
At this time I'm still experiencing unimpeded Usenet downloads. I use a French server. It's the only damn thing I download where I actually see the full capacity of my over-priced connection.
Your cynicism aside, I thought getting the film via BitTorrent (as the project's site suggested) was worth a shot, and might be faster than a traditional download. Having been away from BitTorrent for a while, I wasn't aware of how far Rogers had progressed in their traffic-shaping technology. I thought downloading a film with the producers' blessing was a reasonable litmus for how well BT was faring these days.
Your idea that I'd have to stretch to find a legal download is ignorant. I live in Canada. I have the right to take digital copies of any media I own for the purposes of personal back-up. As a payer of my cable bill, I am fully entitled to legally take digital copies via whatever technology I care to use -- VCR, DVR, P2P.
You're only aiding the abetting the interests of evil when you try to pickle my comment with a red herring.
I'm a subscriber to Rogers top-tier residential Internet service, and I recently tried to download "Elephant's Dream" (the open-source 3D blender project) via BitTorrent, only to discover that the arms race between the ISP and Azureus has been won by Rogers.
All encrypted traffic is now throttled just because it's encrypted. All non-encrypted traffic is throttled if it smells like P2P of any kind.
If this hasn't happened in your neighbourhood yet -- just wait: it's coming, zone by zone.
...and I can't imagine ISP Gmail would be much different.
I think the write-up is alarmist. How does an ISP's choice of mail infrastructure have any "downside" that makes it harder to switch ISPs? Because the features of your old ISP with Google Mail are too compelling? Help me, help me! Pure blatherscythe.
Google mail content can pumped through POP for access through any regular mail end-client (Blackberry, Outlook, whatever), so there's no flexibility issue unless you were married to fetching your messages exclusively with Pine.
I love having Google Mail for my own domain. It's one of the few Google products out of "beta" and it deserves to be acknowledged that the service rocks.
...So, what's the downside (or "downide" as the write-up says) of having a fast, modern, effective way to message folded directly into your Internet access? I just don't get it.
Your making the wrong argument. The issue was "why prosecute attempted anything?" not "suggest a way in which an attempted act may be a crime as a method of demonstrating the legitimacy of the attempted piracy initiative", retard.
What is a nought less a nought? How many baseball players from each team are on the field at a time? What is the first letter of English's most popular and versatile profane word? What was the answer to that baseball question again? If your dial only goes up to ten, where are you going to go from there? What was the answer to the first question again? Making the V sign involves how many upraised fingers? How many lives are cats reputed to have? What is my letter grade if I have done very poorly, but not failed? What was the name of that movie where the killer killed to exemplify the deadly sins? What does one call out before striking a golf ball? What letter would an M resemble if you rotated it ninety degrees counter-clockwise? How many wishes do Djinnis traditionally grant? How many fingers do you have on each hand, if you are an uninjured person? Which letter grade is second best? What is the fourth letter of the alphabet? What do you get if you double the number four? What number was I just asking about? What is the first number to be counted if one does not count zero? How many fingers does a chimpanzee have on each hand, if he or she is an uninjured chimp? What is the sum of the previous answer and one? Which letter of the alphabet sounds most like the word "sea"? How many moderator points are in each batch offered to Slashdot users? What is the sum of the previous answer plus one? How many strikes before one is out? Which number follows four in sequence? What is the sum of the previous answer plus one? Which number looks like zero wearing a tight belt? What was that number again? Which letter falls between B and D in the English alphabet? Which number is frequently confused for the letter O?
Using Apple Remote Desktop (for OS patching, application installs, configuration) or any of several open-source VNC solutions (to help lost users by taking control of the machine) remote management of enterprise Macs is not only possible, but easy.
I manage a small cluster of Macintoshes (for video production) in a 95% Windows shop. If anything, I think I have a far easier time than the IT Service that maintains the Windows machines (they often have a lot of complex licensing issues to wade through).
It is controlled by people who are NO different than Mao and unlike in America or nearly any other country, they can not be removed.
Right -- unlike in America...just ask Karl Rove and Wouble-You Bush.
You're talking about a country where an elected leader can be sacked for getting head, but an unelected leader can't be prised from the grip of power with a shoe-horn made of righteous indignation millions strong.
Are you sure the contrast is as stark as you're suggesting?
(NB: Note to American intelligence officials: don't take my comment the wrong way. I love America! Just the other day a crazed Muslim was all like, "Don't you hate America?" and I was like, "No sir, it's all that and don't let me hear diff'rent.)
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Since users of "Canadian" ISPs are sent warning letters about their uploading behaviour citing the American DMCA already, what would be the point of having a domestic version? Just so it could be bilingual?
Sorry DVD Consortium -- you can't end an arms race that way...you can only up the ante.
Thank you, Scudsucker, for justifying the reputation of the average Slashdot poster as a peurile, reactionary, naive blow-hard.
It warms the cockles (and no, I'm not homophobic either) of my heart to see life imitate lampoon so perfectly. You truly rock, as a living charicature of adolescent reasoning and broken rhetoric, and are an inspiration to us all.
Sign my tits!
How is listening to foreign lobbyists over your own people and banning something that isn't a problem a "clever move"?
It is a clever move to toss them a bone rather than having them agitate for your entire skeleton, especially when the bone you toss is meaningless and costs you nothing.
What inferno? The MPAA can't do jack against another country, and they aren't going to stop releasing movies in Canada if this doesn't pass.
Did you honestly just say "the MPAA can't do jack against another country" without giggling? Why don't you ask a Swede how they feel about the MPAA's influence in their country? You might come away better informed.
Canada's exhibitor industry exists only by the leave of the various American movie associations who sell them content. I've been e-mailing back and forth with a friend who works for one of the major studios here, and I can tell you that around their office they're damn thankful at how this turned out because the alternative meant possible industry action, which threatens their paycheques directly (she's in exhibitor relations).
In this situation, the Americans hold all the cards. They own the movies, and in most cases they own the movie theatres.
Negotiating with bullies so that they're under the impression you've conceded to their demands when in fact nothing has changed is a clever move. It's called diplomacy, and it works.
It's hilarious when the plebes get all foamy at the mouth over something they've totally missed the point of. This was a clever move, not a nefarious one.
An inconsequential smolder has been smothered rather than face an inferno from Hollywood's fattest wallets. That's a good move -- it represents a certain economy of action that's often lacking in Canadian government.
No DCMA equivalent in Canada! Vive le Canada semi-libre!
My Canadian ISP, Rogers, is not on the list but if I were to hazard a guess I'd reckon they'd sell my tracks six ways from Sunday as soon as sneeze.
These are, after all, the goons who think just about any kind of encrypted traffic coming out of your box is a terrorist threat to the movie industry -- even if it's just a VPN connection.
Does anyone know what Rogers retention policies actually are?
I'm telling Dr. Phil on you.
Right -- when you're using low impact applications like the ones you've listed the machine you use is much more forgiving. It's kind of funny the way you keep trying to disagree while agreeing with this statement.
If I was getting a multimedia machine I am getting a Mac, hands down, no debate.
Despite questionable reading comprehension, you seem to have arrived at the point eventually. Yes -- when you need a workstation to work seamlessly with all its parts in a high performance situation, putting together a Windows-based PC Frankenbox is an exercise in self-defeat.
The difference becomes glaring in the desktop sector though. Especially to us here, where we build our own machines. Everyone knows that you can get the specs for a G5, go to Tigerdirect, Newegg, wherever and price things out piece by piece and come in well under what that Mac would cost.
...Of course, that savings seems less significant now that we're sacked with a workstation plagued by maddeningly intermittant hardware conflicts and maddeningly predictable software/OS glitches.
Yeah, indeed -- everyone knows this. That's why our handy IT department went out and custom built a new Windows workstation for our video studio: to save $600.
The thing is a lemon, much like the reasonably expensive PC it was to replace.
I'm not a fanboy. I don't care what other people use. However, working in a mixed platform enviroment for the last year has shown me a few things: 1) Windows users hate their computers, and are regularly extremely frustrated; 2) A turn-key solution is worth the "premium" (I put that in quotations because I think, in the long run, the premium machine costs us less time and effort to maintain).
So, go ahead and build your own PC if you're a gamer or a developer -- but if you need a machine to perform heavy multimedia duties in a professional environment, you're just asking for a world of grief by trying to save that $500.
Send for that dog with the liquor canister on his collar -- I'm being flattened beneath the weight of a jaw-droppingly gimongous bubble of hot air and it's not rising!
Darwin, why have you forsaken me?
...you are not carrying that item."
Those of you who skip commercials are aware, I hope, that you're stealing television?
Being entertained is a privilege, not a right.
I mean, sure, you paid to buy the TV. And you pay your cable or satellite bill. And you bought the PVR along with the embedded fees for the various artists' unions. But, other than that, it's like you commercial skippers are trying to get something for nothing.
It's time to ask yourself what Jesus would do.
It's time to take some responsibility: if you enjoy quality programming, the onus is on you to not only watch the adverts but also to act on them. That's right: those commercials are worthless unless you exercise your obligation as a consumer to actually buy something.
So, what's our tally? Buy your TV, buy your PVR, line the pockets of the artist unions, pay for content delivery, watch the ads, act on the suggestions made in the ads -- now you're entitled to some entertainment.
Sadly, there's nothing much good on.
1) This is good because, as many have mentioned, going out on a high note is far preferable to shrivelling into unadultered guano before calling it quits. Besides, the sooner they kill it the sooner someone else can "reimagine" it a generation later if we honestly find the concept that compelling.
2) The success of BSG has taught the Sci-Fi Channel some good lessons, and we can hope such lessons are applied as they develop new properties, thereby giving them an edge in the race to suck less.
3) I'm arranging to have my own scifi project pitched to the Sci-Fi Channel in the near future. A hole in the schedule means a potential opportunity!
HTTPS and SFTP seem to be fine. VPN, however, is totally forked. I haven't been able to VPN to my office since January 1, 2007.
At this time I'm still experiencing unimpeded Usenet downloads. I use a French server. It's the only damn thing I download where I actually see the full capacity of my over-priced connection.
Your cynicism aside, I thought getting the film via BitTorrent (as the project's site suggested) was worth a shot, and might be faster than a traditional download. Having been away from BitTorrent for a while, I wasn't aware of how far Rogers had progressed in their traffic-shaping technology. I thought downloading a film with the producers' blessing was a reasonable litmus for how well BT was faring these days.
Your idea that I'd have to stretch to find a legal download is ignorant. I live in Canada. I have the right to take digital copies of any media I own for the purposes of personal back-up. As a payer of my cable bill, I am fully entitled to legally take digital copies via whatever technology I care to use -- VCR, DVR, P2P.
You're only aiding the abetting the interests of evil when you try to pickle my comment with a red herring.
I'm a subscriber to Rogers top-tier residential Internet service, and I recently tried to download "Elephant's Dream" (the open-source 3D blender project) via BitTorrent, only to discover that the arms race between the ISP and Azureus has been won by Rogers.
All encrypted traffic is now throttled just because it's encrypted. All non-encrypted traffic is throttled if it smells like P2P of any kind.
If this hasn't happened in your neighbourhood yet -- just wait: it's coming, zone by zone.
Thank goodness for Usenet.
...and I can't imagine ISP Gmail would be much different.
...So, what's the downside (or "downide" as the write-up says) of having a fast, modern, effective way to message folded directly into your Internet access? I just don't get it.
I think the write-up is alarmist. How does an ISP's choice of mail infrastructure have any "downside" that makes it harder to switch ISPs? Because the features of your old ISP with Google Mail are too compelling? Help me, help me! Pure blatherscythe.
Google mail content can pumped through POP for access through any regular mail end-client (Blackberry, Outlook, whatever), so there's no flexibility issue unless you were married to fetching your messages exclusively with Pine.
I love having Google Mail for my own domain. It's one of the few Google products out of "beta" and it deserves to be acknowledged that the service rocks.
I demand to know what Kilgore Trout says about all this.
Your making the wrong argument. The issue was "why prosecute attempted anything?" not "suggest a way in which an attempted act may be a crime as a method of demonstrating the legitimacy of the attempted piracy initiative", retard.
Try being less reactionary. Deep breaths.
Do you think somebody who tried to kill you but muffed the job should be let free to take another stab at it?
What is a nought less a nought? How many baseball players from each team are on the field at a time? What is the first letter of English's most popular and versatile profane word? What was the answer to that baseball question again? If your dial only goes up to ten, where are you going to go from there? What was the answer to the first question again? Making the V sign involves how many upraised fingers? How many lives are cats reputed to have? What is my letter grade if I have done very poorly, but not failed? What was the name of that movie where the killer killed to exemplify the deadly sins? What does one call out before striking a golf ball? What letter would an M resemble if you rotated it ninety degrees counter-clockwise? How many wishes do Djinnis traditionally grant? How many fingers do you have on each hand, if you are an uninjured person? Which letter grade is second best? What is the fourth letter of the alphabet? What do you get if you double the number four? What number was I just asking about? What is the first number to be counted if one does not count zero? How many fingers does a chimpanzee have on each hand, if he or she is an uninjured chimp? What is the sum of the previous answer and one? Which letter of the alphabet sounds most like the word "sea"? How many moderator points are in each batch offered to Slashdot users? What is the sum of the previous answer plus one? How many strikes before one is out? Which number follows four in sequence? What is the sum of the previous answer plus one? Which number looks like zero wearing a tight belt? What was that number again? Which letter falls between B and D in the English alphabet? Which number is frequently confused for the letter O?
Using Apple Remote Desktop (for OS patching, application installs, configuration) or any of several open-source VNC solutions (to help lost users by taking control of the machine) remote management of enterprise Macs is not only possible, but easy.
I manage a small cluster of Macintoshes (for video production) in a 95% Windows shop. If anything, I think I have a far easier time than the IT Service that maintains the Windows machines (they often have a lot of complex licensing issues to wade through).
It is controlled by people who are NO different than Mao and unlike in America or nearly any other country, they can not be removed.
Right -- unlike in America...just ask Karl Rove and Wouble-You Bush.
You're talking about a country where an elected leader can be sacked for getting head, but an unelected leader can't be prised from the grip of power with a shoe-horn made of righteous indignation millions strong.
Are you sure the contrast is as stark as you're suggesting?
(NB: Note to American intelligence officials: don't take my comment the wrong way. I love America! Just the other day a crazed Muslim was all like, "Don't you hate America?" and I was like, "No sir, it's all that and don't let me hear diff'rent.)